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Film Review

The Jeff Healey Band Live in Belgium

Read "The Jeff Healey Band Live in Belgium" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The Jeff Healey BandThe Jeff Healey Band Live in BelgiumEagle Rock Entertainment2012The early 1990s were the height of Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey's popularity, particularly spurred by his conspicuous appearance in the 1989 Patrick Swazye film Roadhouse (United Artists). Healey, who passed away in 2006 at age 41, was noted for his novel guitar playing technique, developed possibly in response to his childhood blindness caused by familial retinoblastoma. Healey played the guitar flat ...

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Album Review

Jeff Healey & The Jazz Wizards with Chris Barber: It's Tight Like That

Read "It's Tight Like That" reviewed by Ivana Ng


In the United States, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties yielded a brand of upbeat jazz saturated with sexual innuendo and heedlessness. Across the northern border, Jeff Healey, a Canadian blues-rock guitarist, felt the significance of this traditional jazz. In his latest outing, he and his eight-piece band, the Jazz Wizards, conjur up some old magic. Healey, who has been blind since infancy, plays the trumpet vivaciously on the earlier pieces. “Bugle Call Rag best displays his ...

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Radio

"My Kinda Jazz" Hosted by the Legendary Jeff Healey Returns to Jazz.FM91

"My Kinda Jazz" Hosted by the Legendary Jeff Healey Returns to Jazz.FM91

Source: Michael Ricci

Toronto, Ontario -- JAZZ.FM91 is honoured to announce the return of Jeff Healey's “My Kinda Jazz" to the programming line-up on JAZZ.FM91 beginning this Monday, May 17th at 9PM.

The program originally aired from May of 2005, right up until Healey's passing in March of 2008 at the age of 41 after a lengthy struggle with cancer. “My Kinda Jazz" showcases the traditional jazz of the 1920s and '30s, and includes listener requests in addition to Healey's personal choices. A ...

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Obituary

Guitarist and Bandleader Jeff Healey Dies in Toronto Hospital

Guitarist and Bandleader Jeff Healey Dies in Toronto Hospital

Source: Just Roots PR

Following a lengthy struggle with cancer, Healey passes away on the eve of the release of a new blues rock album (His First Blues Album in 8 Years)

Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St. Joseph's Hospital, Toronto. He was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura ...

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Recording

Jeff Healey to Release "It's Tight Like That" on Stony Plain Records

Jeff Healey to Release "It's Tight Like That" on Stony Plain Records

Source: All About Jazz

Label To Release Jeff Healey & The Jazz Wizards Live CD, It's Tight Like That, April 25, With Special Guest Chris Barber

Stony Plain Also Set To Release Legendary Jump Blues Pianist Jay Mcshann's New CD, Hootie Blues, On April 25

EDMONTON, AB - Stony Plain Records has announced the signing of a world-wide agreement with guitarist Jeff Healey and will release his Jeff Healey & The Jazz Wizards U.S. debut CD, It's Tight Like That, on April 25.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Last Call

Thrill Jockey
2010

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It's Tight Like That

Stony Plain Records
2006

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